“But you asked me if I could have anyone who could play me in a movie,” Gingrich mused, “why not go for Brad Pitt?”

Pitt, an avowed Democrat, has not weighed in on Gingrich’s idea, though it would seem that others – including Philip Seymour Hoffman, the late Leslie Nielsen or Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz – would be better suited to play the presidential candidate.

There are also several Websites devoted to the uncanny resemblance of a young Gingrich to the actor Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight Schrute on the NBC show The Office.

Gingrich’s suggestion of having an A-lister play him on the silver screen is just the latest time that the ex-speaker has compared himself with a luminary.

During this primary season alone, he has drawn parallels between himself and Charles de Gaulle, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.